Arcane Lord

After the communication was interrupted, Shado sat quietly in the room for a long time, constantly looking back on the memory just now, and inserting himself into Carano's situation from time to time.

The other party's last smile made him feel that he might have missed something, but in the end he didn't find anything suspicious, but he was more sure that the other party attached great importance to the mithril mine.

"I hope I'm just overthinking it!"

…

Two days later, the elders of the Moon Shadow family mentioned by Carano arrived in Severton.

However, the other party did not show himself as an elf, but pretended to be an ordinary-looking human being. Until Xia Duo led him into a private reception room, the other party revealed his true face——

An old moon elf man with wrinkles already appearing on his face.

"I wonder what your name is?"

"Lord Shado, just call me Limo. I am here to sign a sacred contract with you on behalf of the Yueying family and hand over mithril compensation."

"I have prepared the contract, please take a look."

Xia Duo didn't expose the little trick in the other party's words, so he quickly signed the contract and settled down.

However, when Xia Duo placed the thick stack of elf paper in front of Limo, the expression on his face suddenly became unbearable.

"Lord Shado, is this a sacred contract?"

"Yes, of course this is a sacred contract! Didn't you see the Holy Power of Order that filled it?" Sha Duo asked.

In order to prepare this contract, he spent thousands of gold coins and found a priest from the Grand Temple to pray for an entire afternoon.

Of course, the priest was granted divine favor by the Lord of Glory for presiding over this contract, so Sha Duo's fees were waived. That was another matter.

This contract is indeed filled with abundant holy power of order, and it is a whole, not composed of multiple sacred contracts.

Limo had no choice but to pick up the contract and read it carefully. Unlike the countless clauses he expected to be mixed together, the contract was very clear, and even the first two pages even carefully refined the general content of the contract.

Which part you need to see, just turn it backwards according to the previous tips.

This contract was entirely written in Elvish. Limo didn't seem to be struggling. After a while, he read it all. However, after reading it, he found that the many words he had prepared in advance were completely ineffective.

The original intention of negotiating again disappeared without a trace at this moment.

Limo really couldn't imagine that the other party could extend the contract of "not to actively disclose the mithril mine to the outside world within three years" to so many words.

It lists many possible situations. In Limo's view, almost all possibilities are exhausted, and many situations are almost impossible to happen.

But the other party still listed them one by one.

Looking at the contract document in front of him, which was comparable to a book, Limo didn't know whether to sign or not.

After a long silence, he reached out and pressed the contract, leaving his personal magic mark and family emblem on the cover. At the same time, he also read out the standard signing words provided by Xia Duo——

"I have read and agreed to all the contents of this sacred contract, witnessed in the name of the Moon Shadow family, the Lord of Glory."

After reading it, the holy power on the contract suddenly fluctuated, transforming into a flame that could be seen directly by the naked eye and covering the contract.

Seeing this scene, Xia Duo confirmed that what Limo said was completely from the heart and was not forced at all. The Lord of Glory recognized the other party's signing, and then he also said the standard signing words in his own name.

After the signing is completed, all the holy power in the contract suddenly disappears, but both parties to the contract can summon the true identity of the contract by chanting the holy name of the Lord of Glory.

As for the paper document left behind by the ceremony, Xia Duo was not too stingy and gave it to Limo.

Then came the handover of Mithril, which was also reflected in the contract. It was impossible for Xia Duo to leave such an obvious loophole.

A total of 1,200 pounds of high-quality mithril was more than double the 500 pounds that Carano had promised before. Chateau speculated that there might be some errors caused by inconsistent weights and measures between the two parties.

Of course, it's also possible that Carano meant to express goodwill.

After an inspection process that took longer than signing the contract, and continued from morning to afternoon, Xia Duo confirmed that the handover was completed. Of course, the extra mithril would not be refunded, but it was his inspection fee.

…

After Limo left, Xia Duo poured more than 1,000 mithril ingots on the ground.

Looking at the high-grade mithril covered with white flowers all over the floor, he thought he would be more or less excited, but he didn't expect that his mood at the moment was surprisingly calm.

After carefully exploring the source of this emotion in the subconscious, we finally landed on the big secret that might exist in Langas Plain or the Green Vine Tribe.

The expectations were too high but not realized. Now even if the harvest is great, it is difficult to be happy.

"Forget it, don't think about it anymore, this matter is over."

But after returning to the laboratory, Xia Duo still subconsciously touched the location of the detection equipment in the laboratory. Even if he didn't look around, he still felt a thorn in his heart.

The previously signed contract only stipulated that Xia Duo could not proactively disclose information about the mithril mine in Langas Plain for three years, but it did not stipulate that he could not discover other secrets on his own.

But the result of the detection surprised him, and it was very different from the previous detection results he conducted at the Tower of Time.

"this--"

Xia Duo seemed to have thought of something and quickly made another inquiry. The result of this inquiry was almost exactly the same as before——

In the area where the Green Vine Tribe was originally located, no traces left by the Green Vine Tribe can be found.

The traces here include not only the people of the Green Vine Tribe, but also the buildings, roads, farmland, plants, and even all man-made traces of the Green Vine Tribe.

In other words, the target that Sha Duo detected this time is no different from any uninhabited wilderness on the Langas Plain!

"How can this be?!"

Fortunately, the members of the "David String Properties Research Project Team" had not yet arrived, and he was not the only one in the laboratory. Sha Duo immediately came to the transmission room of the Austrian Law Federation.

With the help of the teleportation circle here, teleport directly to the sky near the Green Vine Tribe.

In the biting cold wind, Xia Duo stood out of thin air, looking at the empty land below. Unwilling to give up, he quickly lowered his altitude and approached the Green Vine Tribe during the descent.

As a result, after actually setting foot on the land where the Green Vine Tribe was located, the large areas of farmland that existed just a few days ago had now turned into large areas of barren grass.

Further inside, what should have been a village is still a wilderness scene that is no different from the outside.

As far as the location of the Ancestral Spirit Hall in Xia Duo's impression, there was still no change. It was still a wilderness.